[perfect stranger]

I didn't fall for it so easy. But that little bit of webbing betwen my right thumb and fore-finger was pretty tender for a few days.

A few weeks ago I bought a pound of habs and let them sit around in the cooler at work for a week or so and greatly regreted it because the rest of the staff used them as practical jokes and dares for cash.

One of our idiot servers that was "got" by the kitchen staff the night before offered me 20 dollars to eat half of one and I told him, "You don't have to pay me, I bought the whole damn pound of them."

[Lurker]

I've got a few of them cleaned and sectioned into about 1/4 inch strips. Then I ran a cotton thread through them and hung 'em up over the stove.

Once they dry I figure I can just pluck off a hunk and drop it into whatever I'm cooking kind of like those New Mexico style chiles.

One or two should do for a whole great big pot of chili.

They are really pretty little peppers, and they look almost completely harmless but man oh man one wrong move and .....

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